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Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers.
Jan 14, 1981 · Scanners: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane. A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
The film's story involves a breed of men and women who are "scanners," who can pick up the thoughts of other people, can enter their minds, and can mentally duel with them with such terrifying force that their enemies may literally have their heads explode.
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. The film is about a corporation, that attempts to use people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities for its own...
However, there is a group of renegade scanners who plan to create a race that will rule the world. Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers.
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Jan 14, 2021 · Some 40 years after its release, David Cronenberg’s sci-fi/horror hybrid remains a pivotal film for the legendary director.
Scanners. With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of ...
Jan 25, 2017 · Arguably the most famous and significant cult film created during Canada's legendary tax shelter era (which ran from the mid-1970s to the early '80s), Scanners (1981) put writer-director David Cronenberg on the international map courtesy of a wide, aggressive U.S. release from Avco Embassy the same year it also struck gold with John Carpenter's ...
Overview. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Jan 13, 1981 · Scanners is a David Cronenberg film, through and through. Though not strictly defined as a body horror film, Scanners still offers some elements of Cronenberg's beloved subgenre with blood vein effects and exploding heads.
